CVE-2002-1581

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Summary

CVECVE-2002-1581
StatePUBLISHED
Assignermitre
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2004-12-06 05:00:00 UTC
Updated2025-04-03 01:03:51 UTC
DescriptionDirectory traversal vulnerability in nph-mr.cgi in Mailreader.com 2.3.20 through 2.3.31 allows remote attackers to view arbitrary files via .. (dot dot) sequences and a null byte (%00) in the configLanguage parameter.

Risk And Classification

Primary CVSS: v2.0 5 from [email protected]

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Problem Types: NVD-CWE-Other | n/a

CVSS v2.0 Breakdown

Access Vector
Network
Access Complexity
Low
Authentication
None
Confidentiality
Partial
Integrity
None
Availability
None

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 3.0 All All All
Application Mailreader.com Mailreader.com 2.3.20 All All All
Application Mailreader.com Mailreader.com 2.3.21 All All All
Application Mailreader.com Mailreader.com 2.3.22 All All All
Application Mailreader.com Mailreader.com 2.3.23 All All All
Application Mailreader.com Mailreader.com 2.3.24 All All All
Application Mailreader.com Mailreader.com 2.3.25 All All All
Application Mailreader.com Mailreader.com 2.3.26 All All All
Application Mailreader.com Mailreader.com 2.3.27 All All All
Application Mailreader.com Mailreader.com 2.3.28 All All All
Application Mailreader.com Mailreader.com 2.3.29 All All All
Application Mailreader.com Mailreader.com 2.3.30 All All All
Application Mailreader.com Mailreader.com 2.3.31 All All All

Vendor Declared Affected Products

SourceVendorProductVersionPlatforms
CNA Na N/a affected n/a Not specified

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
ISS X-Force Database: mailreader-dotdot-directory-traversal (10490): Mailreader.com "dot dot" directory traversal af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.iss.net Patch, Vendor Advisory
's by request of one Anthony DiSante * A fixed Dutch translation by Almar van Pel * Added ALT's to all -tags by request of Raul A. Gallegos * Possibility to use the sendmail binary instead of SMTP by Mark Slemko * Cookie-based session identification for those browsers that accept cookies (a fix for a nasty security bug) * A workaround for an IIS bug for a piece of code that was originally put in there to work around IE bugs :-) 2.3.29 Thu Jul 19 09:37 2001 Kim Holviala * Uh... .27 and .2 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 mailreader.com
MailReader.com NPH-MR.CGI File Disclosure Vulnerability af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.securityfocus.com Exploit, Patch, Vendor Advisory
Debian -- Security Information -- DSA-534-1 mailreader af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.debian.org Patch, Vendor Advisory
SecurityFocus af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.securityfocus.com Exploit, Patch, Vendor Advisory
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NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

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